Siana Architecture

Explore curated projects, city guides, and architectural stories from around the world.

Siana Architecture is an editorial atlas: we document significant buildings across the world's cities, write about them with the care of an editor and the eye of an architect, and place every one of them on a map you can actually use.

The interactive map

Every project we publish is pinned on the Atlas, our interactive map. Filter by city, material, era or architectural style, then open any pin to read the full entry.

Cities we cover

City guides pair an essay on the place with the buildings worth walking to. We currently cover 3 cities.

• Berlin - Germany, Where History Meets Contemporary Design
• New York - USA, The city that nevers sleeps
• Vienna - Austria

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Featured buildings

Each entry carries the architect, the year of completion, the materials and the context that makes the building worth the detour.

• 8 House - BIG, 2010, A neighbourhood you can bike to the roof of
• Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg - Werner Düttmann, 1960, Berlin, Sit in the café and look at how the exhibition halls step down to the park.
• Autobahnüberbauung Schlangenbader Straße - Georg Heinrichs, Wolf Bertelsmann, Gerhard Krebs, Klaus Detlev Krebs, 1980, Berlin, Walk the terraced west side, then remember a motorway runs under…
• Bayard–Condict Building - Louis Sullivan / Lyndon P. Smith, 1899, New York, Louis Sullivan's only building in New York.
• Bierpinsel - Ralf Schüler, Ursulina Schüler-Witte, 1976, Berlin, Stand on the Schloßstraße bridge and look up at the tree shape the architects intended.
• Caixaforum Madrid - Herzog & de Meuron, 2008, Contemporary culture on the traces of the past
• Casa Batlló - Antoni Gaudí, 1906, The house of bones and dragons
• Casa da Música - OMA / Rem Koolhaas, 2005, A concert hall carved as a white meteorite
• Casa Luis Barragán - Luis Barragán, 1948, Silence, colour and light made habitable
• Champalimaud Centre - Charles Correa, 2010, A threshold between science and the sea
• Embassy of the Czech Republic - Věra Machoninová, Vladimír Machonin, Klaus Pätzmann, 1978, Berlin, Stand across Wilhelmstraße to see the dark glass upper floors float over the base.
• ExRotaprint - Klaus Kirsten, 1959, Berlin, Look up at the corner tower on Gottschedstraße, where the concrete cubes cantilever out.

From Practice

Essays, criticism, interviews and field notes on architecture and the cities that hold it.

• The Drawing That Thinks Back - Generative tools promise infinite variation. What they ask in return is a new kind of authorship.
• On the Patience of Stone - Why the slowest buildings often outlast the fashions that surround them.
• The Museum That Forgot Its Street - A new cultural landmark dazzles from the water and turns its back on the city behind it.
• A Conversation With the Last Brickmaker - Forty years at the kiln, and a quiet argument for materials that age in public.
• The Slow Return of the Courtyard - Across three continents, architects are rediscovering the oldest trick for cooling a city block.

Practical guides for architecture practices:

• Barcelona: la línea curva como manifiesto - De la curva orgánica de Gaudí al gesto de cubierta de EMBT, Barcelona ha tratado la línea curva no como ornamento sino como tesis: la materia obedece…
• Lina Bo Bardi, In Her Own Light - The architect who treated concrete as an invitation rather than a barrier.
• The Best Brutalist Architecture in Berlin of 2026 - A walking route through azulejo facades, hillside miradouros and the quiet genius of the pombaline grid.

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About Siana Architecture

We believe the most interesting building in any city is rarely the most famous one, and that the best way to understand a place is to walk it slowly, with someone pointing. No ads, no clutter, no infinite scroll. More about what we do.